Dragunov Viktor Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 21st guards rifle nevelskaya division. My great-grandfather, Viktor Dragunov, was born on 27.02.1911 in the village of Brasovo, Bryansk region. In a peasant family, my great-grandfather was one of seven children. He was used to hard work from childhood. After school, my great-grandfather graduated from Cherepovets mechanical technical school. Then he worked at the Stalingrad tractor plant and later as a mechanic at a Sawmill in Navla (Bryansk region). In 1941, with the rank of Lieutenant of communications (great-grandfather graduated from military training courses for Junior officers in Central Asia), he went to the front. He was the commander of a Telegraph and cable platoon, and then the commander of a communications company. My great-grandfather received his first award, the order of the red Star, in October 1943, for fighting in the area East of Kotelva. From the award list of the 122 separate guards communications battalion: Dragoons, commanding a platoon, showed himself to be a bold, brave, initiative and resolute commander, his platoon providing communication between the command post of the corps Commander and the Commander of the 69th Rifle division… In difficult conditions of battle and at crucial moments under continuous artillery and mortar fire of the enemy, tov. Dragunov himself personally went to the line. They personally eliminated 6 injuries, which made it possible to smoothly manage the troops and timely transfer of orders and orders. Great-grandfather participated in the liberation of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary from the Nazi invaders and ended the war in the Austrian capital of Vienna, with the rank of captain of the 21st Guards. Rifle corps of the Fourth Army. After the war, my great-grandfather moved to live in the Tula region. Odoev, where he worked as a mechanic at the Odoevsky cannery. From my grandfather's stories, I learned that my great-grandfather had a great sense of humor, was always very athletic, fit and hardworking. Cadet of the may day cadet school of the Tula region, Shchekinsky district of the 7th " D " class, Anton Dragunov.